Syria

May 13, 2013

Female protestors in Aleppo, Syria (AFP)
10:34 GMT

"Sustainable peace is impossible without deliberately engaging women" writes Leigh Cuen

Prime Minister Ghassan Hitto with other members of the Syrian opposition (AFP)
08:34 GMT

Moscow and Washington attempt to find a peaceful resolution to the Syrian conflict could be attended by Syrian opposition

May 12, 2013

Two car bombs killed 46 people and wounded dozens more in a Turkish border town on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)
13:27 GMT

Syria has denied being responsible for two car bombs which killed 46 people and wounded dozens more in a Turkish border town on Saturday.

Iran Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi meets Syria President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on May 7(AFP/SANA)
10:00 GMT

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi made the remarks in an interview with German title Der Spiegel

An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube on May 08, 2013 reportedly shows a man reading a statement at an undisclosed location in Syria, behind four abducted Filipino UN peacekeepers. (AFP/ YouTube)
09:11 GMT

The four UN peacekeepers were captured by Syrian rebels last week in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights

The twin car bombings in Turkey on Saturday killed at least 43 people and left 140 wounded. (Photo: AFP)
06:18 GMT

Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler blames groups supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the twin car bombings in Turkey on Saturday, which killed at least 43 people and left 140 wounded.

May 11, 2013

Turkish women in distress at the site of bomb explosion on the Syria border
20:13 GMT

Two car bombs exploded outside government buildings in a Turkish border town Saturday, killing at least 40 people, the government said.

A rebel fighter of the Syrian Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) has a flower in his Russian made 'AK-47' kalashnikov gun as he holds a position in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo. AFP Photo
11:48 GMT

The US charge d’affaires to Lebanon met with PM Mikati and expressed concern that Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria could drag the country into conflict.

 A Lebanese man uses a public phone near a poster featuring Syrian President Bashar Assad, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week in the southern Lebanese city of Naqura. AFP Photo
10:56 GMT

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman said on Friday that the only way to protect the country against Israeli aggression is to place Hezbollah's arms under Army control

US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken out against chemical weapon use in Syria
07:01 GMT

With the international community finally taking a more active stance on the Syrian crisis, US Secretary of State John Kerry said said Friday there was “strong evidence” that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons.

May 10, 2013

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah
06:43 GMT

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said that as a result of Israeli airstrikes on Damascus last weekend, the Shiite group would be provided with weapons he described as "game changing" by the Syrian regime.

May 9, 2013

Syria buying advanced Russian air-defense weapons
13:29 GMT

Syria has already began payments for a $900 million purchase of an advanced air defense system from Russia and an initial delivery was due within three months..

Syrian refugees at the Zaatari camp in north Jordan (AFP)
10:40 GMT

Jordan's Foreign Minister told John Kerry that Syrians could make up 40% of the Jordanian population by mid 2014

: US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks as the joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on May 7, 2013. (Photo: AFP / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV)
09:47 GMT

US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted on Thursday that President Bashar al-Assad cannot be part of a transitional government in Syria.

Reports of internet blackout in Syria began on Tuesday.
08:53 GMT

Syria's internet and phone services resumed on Wednesday afternoon following a two-day blackout that left much of the war-torn country cut off.